I'm currently having an appearance problem with Firefox 12.0 on Fedora 15. Its visual appearance leaves a lot to be desired.

In case it helps, I'm using an NVidia Geforce FX5200 with 256MB onboard memory and the Firefox 15 Noveau driver.

The symptoms on Firefox 15, using the Google home/search page as an example, are as follows.

The boxes that should be in black along the top of the page are actually white. Each box is separated from the next by a vertical line which projects beneath the shared horizontal line along the bottom of those boxes.

The Google title graphic appears only sometimes.

The flashing cursor in the mid-screen search box projects down across the bottom of the search box.

The two buttons labelled "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" have their labels "written" right on the bottom inside edge of their respective buttons.

Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour from Firefox 12.0 ? If so, do you know if it can be fixed and if so, how ?

The curious thing is, I regularly use Firefox 9 on MS Windows 7. On that platform, this earlier Firefox displays just fine. No sign of the symptoms mentioned above.

I would have thought that as Firefox originated on Linux, the Linux-based Firefox would be the one to show up best. Oh well.

Any help that anyone can give with this would be very much appreciated.

Just a point of info Firefox has nothing to do with the Nouveau driver that is the Nvidia Open source driver with some 3D support so it should be associated with fedora 15 not Firefox BTW why use a distro that is no longer supported time to upgrade to fedora 17.